Re: svn commit: rev 6453 - in trunk/tools/cvs2svn: . test-data/bogus-tag-cvsrepos test-data/bogus-tag-cvsrepos/CVSROOT

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:16:11AM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> mark benedetto king wrote:
> >
> >>>3.) map the '/' to another character. I propose '.', in particular,
> >>> because it is not allowed in CVS tag names, so this mapping
> >>> will not cause any collisions.
> >>
> >>Dots at the end of the filename don't work on Windows.
> >>If option 3 is chosen, please could one of the other invalid characters be
> >>used? Maybe ','?
> >>
> >
> >
> >Ah, good thinking. Yes, ',' is probably better than the others.
> >
>
> Not that it matters but many tools replace invalid characters with
> underscore `_'. I'm thinking of examples and could come up with CD
> writing tools so far. My $.01 ;-).
>

Underscore is dangerous because there might be two tags, one called "foo/"
and one called "foo_".

--ben

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